Publications
1. Bhugra S, Mishra D, Anupama A, Chaudhury S, Lall B, and Chugh A (2018). Automatic quantification of stomata for high-throughtput plant phenotyping. In 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). IEEE (accepted)
2. Anupama A, Bhugra, S, Lall B, Chaudhury S, and Chugh A (2018). Assessing the correlation of genotypic and phenotypic responses of indica rice varieties under drought stress. Plant Phyisiology and Biochemistry 127: 343-354
3. Budagavi DP and Chugh A (2018) Antibacterial properties of Latarcin 1 derived cell-penetrating peptides. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 115 : 43–49
4. Budagavi DP, Zarin S, Chugh A (2018) Antifungal activity of Latarcin 1 derived peptides against Fusarium solani. BBA Biomembranes 1860: 250-256
5. Bhugra, S, Anupama A, Chaudhury S, Lall B, and Chugh A (2017). "Phenotyping of xylem vessels for drought stress analysis in rice." In Machine Vision Applications (MVA), 2017 Fifteenth IAPR International Conference. IEEE 428-431
6. Nisha P and Chugh A (2017) Cell-penetrating and cargo-delivery ability of a spider toxin-derived peptide in mammalian cells. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics 114:145-153.
7. Nisha P, Deepthi B and Chugh A (2017) CyLoP-1: Membrane-active peptide with cell-penetrating and antimicrobial properties. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes 1859(2), 167-176
8. Vinita K, Jain S K and Chugh A (2016) Renewal and commercialization aspects of patent management in Indian Pharmaceutical Industry. Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (Forthcoming in Vol 22, July 2017)
9. Bhatia P and Chugh A (2016) A multilevel governance framework for regulation of nanomedicine in India. Nanotechnology Reviews (In Press).
10. Jain A and Chugh A(2016) Mitochondrial transit peptide exhibits cell penetration ability and efficiently delivers macromolecules to mitochondria. FEBS Letters 590(17):2896-905
11. Nisha P, Deepthi B, Yadav BK and Chugh A(2015) Membrane-active peptides from marine organisms- Antimicrobials, cell penetrating peptides and peptide toxins-Applications and Prospects. Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins 7(1):75-89
12. Nisha P and Chugh A(2015) Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery of Therapeutic Drugs. Pharmaceutical Medicine 29:155-167
13. Jain A, Yadav BK and Chugh A (2014) Marine antimicrobial peptide Tachyplesin as an efficient nanocarrier for macromolecule delivery in plant and mammalian cells. FEBS J 282(4):732-45
14. Jain A, Shah SG and Chugh A(2014) Cell Penetrating Peptides as efficient nanocarriers for delivery of antifungal compound natamycin for the treatment of fungal keratitis. Pharmaceutical Research doi: 10.1007/s11095-014-1586-x
15. Bhatia P and Chugh A (2014) Role of marine bioprospecting contracts in developing access and benefit sharing mechanism for marine traditional knowledge holders in the pharmaceutical industry. Global Ecology and Conservation 3:176-187
16. Bhatia P and Chugh A (2013) Synthetic biology based biosensors and their governing issues. Current Synthetic and Systems Biology1:108 doi:10.4172/2332-0737.1000108.
17. Jain A, Bhatia P and Chugh A (2012) Microbial Synthetic Biology for Human Therapeutics. Systems and Synthetic Biology doi:10.1007/s11693-012-9092-0.
18. Chugh A, Vikrant, Mahalakshmi A and Khurana P (2012) A novel approach for Agrobacterium-mediated germ line transformation of Indian bread wheat and Pasta wheat. Journal of Phytology 4:22-29.
19. Paul S and Chugh A (2011) Assessing the Role of Ayurvedic Bhasms as Ethno-nanomedicine in the Metal Based Nanomedicine Patent Regime. Journal of Intellectual Property Rights 16(6) 509-515.
20. Trichi S and Chugh A (2011) IPRs in synthetic biology: an antithesis to open access to research. Systems and Synthetic Biology DOI 10.1007/s11693-011-9067-6.
21. Lynd L R, Aziz R A, Carlos de Brito Cruz H, Chimphango A F A, Cortez L A B, Faaij A, Greene N, Keller M, Osseweijer P, Richard T L, Sheehan J, Chugh A, van der Wielen L, Woods J, van Zyl W H (2011) A Global Conversation about Energy from Biomass: The Continental Conventions of the Global Sustainable Bioenergy Project. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 1: 271-279.
22. DeMunshi Y and Chugh A (2010) Role of Traditional Knowledge in Marine Bioprospecting. Biodiversity and Conservation 19:3015-3033.
23. Chugh A, Eudes F and Shim Y (2010) Cell- penetrating peptides as nanocarriers for the delivery of macromolecules. IUBMB Life 62: 183-193.
24. Trichi S and Chugh A (2010) Securing the benefits and implications of synthetic biology. Journal of Commercial Biotechnology 16: 135-158.
25. Sharma K and Chugh A (2009) Legal Aspects of Nanobiotechnology Inventions: An Indian Perspective. SCRIPTed -A Journal of Law, Technology and Society 6(2):433-448.
26. Chugh A, Amundsen E and Eudes F (2009) Translocation of cell-penetrating peptides and delivery of their cargoes in triticale microspores. Plant Cell Reports 28: 801-810.
27. Demunshi Y and Chugh A (2009) Patenting trends in marine bioprospecting based pharmaceutical sector. Journal of Intellectual Property Rights. 14: 131-141.
28. Eudes F and Chugh A (2008) Cell penetrating peptides: from mammalian to plant cells. Plant Signalling and Behaviour3(8): 549-550.
29. Chugh A and Eudes F (2008) Studies of uptake of Cell-penetrating peptides and their cargoes in wheat immature embryos. FEBS Journal 275(10): 2403-2414.
30. Chugh A and Eudes F (2008) Cellular uptake of cell-penetrating peptides, pVEC and transportan in plants. Journal of Peptide Science 14(4): 477-481.
31. Chugh A and Eudes F (2007) Translocation and nuclear accumulation of monomer and dimer of HIV-1 Tat basic domain in triticale mesophyll protoplasts. BBA-Biomembranes 1768: 419-426.
32. Singla B, Chugh A, Khurana JP and Khurana P (2006) An early auxin-responsive Aux/IAA gene from wheat (Triticum aestivum) is induced by epibrassinolide and is differentially regulated by light and calcium. Journal of Experimental Botany 57(15): 4059-4070.
33. Khurana P, Mahalakshmi A, Patnaik D, Chugh A, Vishnudasan D and Singh V (2004) Regeneration and genetic transformation studies in Indian Bread, Pasta and Emmer Wheats, Proceedings of the 2nd International Group Meeting on Wheat Technologies for Warmer areas, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India (152-157).
34. Chugh A and Khurana P (2003) Regeneration via somatic embryogenesis from leaf basal segments and genetic transformation of bread and emmer wheat by particle bombardment. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 74(2) 151-161.
35. Chugh A and Khurana P (2003) Herbicide resistant transgenics of bread wheat (T. aestivum) and emmer wheat (T. dicoccum) by particle bombardment and Agrobacterium-mediated approaches. Current Science 84(1): 101-105.
36. Chugh A and Khurana P (2002) Gene expression during somatic embryogenesis ? recent advances. Current Science 83(6) 715-730.
37. Khurana J, Chugh A and Khurana P (2002) Regeneration from mature and immature embryos and transient gene expression via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in emmer wheat. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 40:1295-1303.
38. Mahalakshmi A, Chugh A and Khurana P (2000) Exogenous uptake via cellular permeabilization and expression of foreign gene in wheat zygotic embryos. Plant Biotechnology 17(3): 235-240.
Invited Book Chapters
1. Bhugra S, Anupama A, Chaudhury S, Lall B, and Chugh A (2018) Multi-modal Image Analysis for Plant Stress Phenotyping. In: Rameshan R., Arora C., Dutta Roy S. (eds) Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics. NCVPRIPG 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 841. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0020-2_24
2. Chugh A, Bhatia P and Jain A (2014) Synthetic Biology for the development of Biodrugs and designer crops and the emerging governance issues In: Systems and Synthetic Biology (Springer Publisher).
3. Chugh A (2010) Can Intellectual property rights orchestrate the conservation and sustainability of biodiversity. In: Knowledge sharing and Intellectual property management. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing AG & Co, Germany, Chapter 11, pp192-199.
4. Chugh A and Eudes F (2010) Cell-penetrating peptides: Trojan horse for macromolecule delivery in plants too? In: Membrane-active peptides: methods and results on structure and function (Edited by: Miguel A R B Castanho), IUL Publishers (International University Line), La Jolla, California, USA, Chapter 15, pp 373-388.
5. Eudes F and Chugh A (2009) Overview on Triticale doubled haploids. In: Advances in Haploid Production in Higher Plants Edited By: Alisher Touraev, BP Forster and S Mohan Jain, Springer Publishers pp 87-96.
6. Chugh A and Eudes F (2008) Isolated microspore embryogenesis in cereals: aspects and prospects In: Recent Advances in Plant Biotechnology (Edited by Ashwani Kumar & Sudhir K Sopory) IK International Publishing Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, India, pp 205-226.
7. Khurana P, Sehgal A and Chugh A (1998) Transgene interactions in transgenics. In : Plant Tissue Culture and Molecular Biology- Applications and Prospects (Edited by PS Srivastava). Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, India, pp 728-750.
General Articles
1. Rohira H, Kumar V and Chugh A(2015) Nanotechnology: Revolutionizing Agricultural Sector. The Botanica: magazine of Delhi University Botanical Society 64, 65:151-155
2. Chugh A(2009)Conservation of Biodiversity: combating the mounting crisis of Nature's wealth. Journal of Landscape Architecture 5(3):28-31
Paper Presentations
1. Bhugra S, Anupama A, Chaudhury S, Lall B and Chugh A (2017) Phenotyping of Xylem Vessels for Drought Stress Analysis in Rice, IAPR International conference on machine vision applications, MVA , Nagoya, Japan .May 8-12.
2. Vinita K, Jain S K and Chugh A (2016) Patent Management: A review from the economics and management perspectives at the National IPR Seminar conducted by PHD Chamber of Commerce, New Delhi,India . Dec 16-17.
3. Jain A, Rohira H, Shah S. G. and Chugh A (2016) Cell Penetrating Peptides as Efficient Nanocarriers for Delivery of Antifungal Compound, Natamycin for the Treatment of Fungal Keratitis. In: 34 European Peptide Symposium , Leipzig, Germany. Sep 4-9.
4. Anupama A, Lall B, Chaudhury S and Chugh A (2016) Quantitative Analysis of Transcriptome and Proteome in Rice under Drought Stress. In: Plant Biology Europe EPSO/FESPB 2016 Congress, Prague, Czech Republic. June 26-30.
5. P Nisha and Chugh A (2016) Cell-penetrating ability of peptide sequence derived from spider toxin after addition of nuclear localization sequence.In:3rd annual peptide congress, Novotel London West, London.18-19 April.
6. Anupama A, Lall B, Chaudhury S and Chugh A (2015) Evaluating the genotypic and phenotypic relationships between the aquaporin genes and water uptake through roots in different "indica" rice varieties under drought stress. In: Plant Organ Growth Symposium, Ghent, Belgium. Mar 10-12.
7. Shah SG, Chugh A, Jain A (2014) Cell penetrating peptides as efficient nanocarriers for antifungal drug molecule, natamycin, for the management of fungal keratitis. In: Uttara Eyecon: Annual Conference of the Uttarakhand State Ophthalmological Society, Mussoorie, India. (Awarded Dr. MC Luthra Gold Medal for Best free paper) Oct 03-05
8. Shah SG, Chugh Aand Jain A (2014) Cell penetrating peptides as efficient nanocarriers for antifungal drug molecule, natamycin, for the management of fungal keratitis. In: Keracon 2014: Annual Conference of the Cornea Society of India, Mahabalipuram, Chennai,India. (Best Paper Award)Dec 19-21
9. Chugh A (2014) Governance of Synthetic Biology. In: Indo-US conference on synthetic and systems biology. JNU, New Delhi, India, Nov 9-12, 2014.
10. Chugh A (2014) Challenges for bioenergy in India-Socio-economic aspects. In: R &D conclave 2014, Challenges for Energy Industries, ICPST 2014, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, Nov 3-5, 2014.
11. P Nisha and Chugh A (2014) Snake toxin-dervied peptide as an efficient cargo delivery nanobiomaterial for both mammalian and plant cells. In: 5th International Conference on Advances in Naomaterials. Aveiro, Portugal July 2-4.
12. Bhatia P and Chugh A (2014) Bioenergy crops: From Research to commercialization in India. In: Bioenergy for sustainable development- the potential role of sugar crops. Coimbatore, India, June 23-25.
13. B Deepthi and Chugh A (2014) Anti 'microbial' but cell 'penetrating' peptides?: A conundrum of specificity. In: AMP2014, Lorient, France, June 4-6.
14. Bhugra S , Anupama A, Lall B, Chugh A and Chaudhary S (2014) Digital image analysis of phenotypic response of rice in soil moisture deficit stress conditions. In: 3rd International Plant Phenotyping Symposium, Chennai, India. Feb 17-19.
15. Bhatia P and Chugh A (2013) Relevance of nanotoxicology in commercialization of nanomedicine. IN: Third Euro-India International Conference on Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering (ICNT2013), Kottayam, Kerala, India Aug 9-11.
16. Bhatia P and Chugh A (2013) Nanomedicine and its governance in India.In: European summit for clinical nanomedicine and targeted medicine, CLINAM 6/13, Basel, Switzerland.
17. Bhatia P and Chugh A (2012) Marine bioprospecting for drug development in the pharmaceutical industry. In : International Conference on Drilling Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
18. Chugh A, Yadav BK, Jain A (2012) Antimicrobial peptides from marine organisms-New frontiers and avenues. In: Proceedings of the third international symposium on antimicrobial peptides: today knowledge and future applications. Lille, France . June 13-15.
19. Bhatia P and Chugh A (2012) Nanotechnology in medicine: IPR safety and regulatory issues. In : APA International congress on advances in human healthcare system. Healthcare India 2012, Delhi, India Feb 20-23.
20. Yadav B, Nisha P and Chugh A (2012) Membrane active peptides from marine organisms. In : APA International congress on advances in human healthcare system. Healthcare India 2012, Delhi, India Feb 20-23.
21. Chugh A and Bhatia P (2011) Role of Marine bioprospecting contracts in developing access and benefit sharing mechanism for marine traditional knowledge holders in the pharmaceutical industry. In : World conference on Marine Biodiversity. Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. September 26- 30.
22. Jain A and Chugh A (2011) Cell penetrating peptides as Nanocarriers: Applications in human theragnostics. In: 3rd ESF Summer School in Nanomedicine, Wittenberg, Germany June 19- 24.
23. Chugh A and Trichi S (2010) Socio-ethical and legal implications of Synthetic Biology. In: BioDesign India 1.0. Thiruvanthpuram, Kerala, India (Invited Speaker).
24. Chugh A ( 2010) Role of Traditional knowledge in Marine Bioprospecting for novel drug development in the Pharmaceutical Sector. In: Marine Biotechnology Future Challenges, ESF-COST High Level Research Conference, Acquafredda di Maratea (Near Naples), Italy (ESF-Grantee).
25. Chugh A and Trichi S (2010) Commercialization of Biofuel Research in India: A Socio-Economic Perspective. In: 4th Global Asia Oceania Convention, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Invited Speaker).
26. Pati S and Chugh A (2010) Role of Women in Traditional Knowledge Management. In: National Conference on Bioprospecting , MNINT Allahabad, India.
27. Saukshmya T, Ghosh S, Gehlot A and Chugh A (2009) Impact assessment of biofuel research. In: International Conference on Bioenergy. IIT Kharagpur, India.
28. Saukshmya T, Ghosh S and Chugh A (2009) Fostering energy efficiency through IP portfolio building. In: International Conference on Bioenergy. IIT Kharagpur, India (Poster).
29. Ghosh S, Saukshmya T and Chugh A (2009) Trends in IP portfolio building in the biofuel sector. In: International Conference on Food Security and Environmental Sustainability. IIT Kharagpur, India.
30. Chugh A and Sharma K (2009) Dilemmas of IP Regime in Nanobiotechnology: an Indian Perspective. In: International Conference on Governance of New Technologies. Edinburgh, UK.
31. Chugh A and Trichi S (2009) Challenges of synthetic biology: A legal and socio-ethical perspective. In: International Conference on Governance of New Technologies. Edinburgh, UK (Poster).
32. Trichi S and Chugh A (2009) Securing the benefits and implications of synthetic biology. In: BioSysBio 2009, Cambridge, UK.
33. Chugh A (2009). Can intellectual property rights orchestrate the conservation and sustainability of Biodiversity? A critical analysis of TRIPS agreement. In: International Conference on Knowledge Sharing and IPRs, IIT Roorkee, India.
34. Sharma K and Chugh A (2009) Socio-ethical Implications of Nanotechnology. In: National Conference on Nanotechnology and its regulatory issues. Kolkata, India.
35. Demunshi Y and Chugh A (2008). Role of Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Regime in Marine Bioprospecting. In: National Conference on Traditional Knowledge Systems, Intellectual Property Rights and their Relevance for Sustainable Development, New Delhi, India.
36. Chugh A, Eudes F (2007). Cell-penetrating peptides: Trojan horse for macromolecule(s) delivery in plants too? In: 2nd Workshop on Biophysics of Membrane-active peptides, Lisbon, Portugal.
37. Chugh A, Amundsen E and Eudes F (2006). Translocation of cell-penetrating peptides in Triticale mesophyll protoplasts. In: 6th International Triticale symposium, Stellenbosch, South Africa (Poster).
38. Chugh A, Amundsen E and Eudes F (2006). Translocation of cell-penetrating peptides in Triticale mesophyll protoplasts. In: 2nd Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop, South Padre Island, Texas, USA.
39. Chugh A, Amundsen A and Eudes F (2006) Isolated microspore culture of Canadian 6X Triticale cultivars. In: Haploids in Higher Plants III, Vienna, Austria (Poster).
40. Chugh A, Amundsen A and Eudes F (2006) Expression studies of various promoters and reporter genes in triticale microspore-derived calli using particle bombardment. In: Haploids in Higher Plants III, Vienna, Austria.
41. Chugh A, Eudes F and Amundsen E (2005) Isolation, Culture and Genetic engineering of Triticale Protoplasts. In: Plant Canada 2005, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
42. Amundsen E, Eudes F and Chugh A (2005) Isolated Microspore culture of Canadian 6X Triticale cultivars. In: Plant Canada 2005, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
43. Chugh A, Vishnudasan D, Patnaik D and Khurana P (2003) Genetic transformation of Indian varieties T. dicoccum and T. durum. In: National Symposium on Plant Biotechnology: Role in Sustainable Development and 25th Meeting of Indian Plant Tissue Culture Association (India), Jaipur, India.
44. Chugh A, Vishnudasan D and Khurana P (2002) Genetic transformation of Indian varieties T. dicoccum and T. durum. In: 2nd International Group Meeting on Wheat Technologies for Warmer areas, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India.
45. Sood N, Chugh A and Bhullar SS (1996) Screening for salt tolerants in Brassica spp in vitro. In: Third International Symposium on In Vitro Culture and Horticultural Breeding. Jerusalem, Israel
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